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7/03/2014

Share a hard drive with everyone on your Wi-Fi networ

Take advantage of your router's USB port with a little trick that lets you share a hard drive with anyone on your Wi-Fi network.
Cloud storage is expensive, but it's not the only way to share a bunch of files across many devices. Instead, you can use an external hard drive and your router to create networked storage accessible to anyone on your Wi-Fi network.

When it's set up, any files stored on that drive can be accessed by all devices on your network -- even phones and tablets. Here's how to set it up on Windows.